Author : Charles Ephraim Burchfield
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9783791343808
A comprehensive overview of the artist's work focuses on Burchfield's expressive watercolors and includes drawing from his 1917 sketchbook, camouflage designs from his tour in the army, and wallpaper designs from the 1920s.
Author : Charles Ephraim 1893-1967 Burchfield
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781013674266
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Author : Charles Burchfield
Publisher : DC Moore Gallery, New York
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9780982631638
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) was an innovative visionary of American modernism, a watercolor painter who infused his landscapes of upstate New York and Ohio and scenes of small town industrialization with pulsing line and crackling, fluid color. He was also an accomplished writer who kept extensive journals and published several important essays during his lifetime. Burchfield's early watercolors were often strongly expressionistic, projecting a buoyant spirituality; he reached a critical juncture around 1920, when he turned to modernist pictorial strategies to express a severe geometry of houses, factories and barren trees, with skies traversed by stylized smoke. After moving to Buffalo in 1921, he became a founder of the Regionalist movement, but he returned to the dynamic expressionism of his youth in the 1940s; as he told a friend, "It is not that I am trying to escape real life, but that the realm of fantasy offers the true solution of truly evaluating an experience." Published for DC Moore Gallery's survey exhibition (and coinciding with the Whitney Museum's 2010 retrospective), this volume presents a career-wide selection of watercolors and drawings, many of which are drawn from private collections, and have never or very rarely been exhibited. The images are complemented by four autobiographical essays, spanning the years 1928 to 1965, which provide an intriguing window into the artist's complex personality. All are out of print and difficult to locate, making this catalogue an important reference source as well as a visually striking presentation of his work.
Author : Charles Burchfield
Publisher :
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Flowers in art
ISBN : 9780989122245
Between the years 1908 and 1911 Charles E. Burchfield created nearly 500 botanical sketches that show the different wildflowers and plants he found in the forests and fields around his childhood home in Salem, Ohio. Using books from the local library, Burchfield identified and documented these plants along with the location where he found them. These sketches, which to a large extent predate the artist's journals, are an important document of Burchfield's early fascination with the natural world.The exhibition Burchfield Botanicals will feature Burchfield masterworks, paired with these botanical sketches and objects from the Marchand Wildflower Collection at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Paul and George Marchand created the Hall of Plant Life in 1936. Paul Marchand, well known throughout the world for his meticulous work created "scientifically accurate and artistically superb casts of flowers and mushrooms" as well as dioramas for the museum throughout his career.
Author : Guy Davenport
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Painting, American
ISBN : 1566409799
Charles Burchfeild, one of the finest American watercolorists of the 20th century- and perhaps our greatest visionary - used watercolors with weight, power and flexibility to achieve a variety of effects unprecedented in scale and technique for the medium. Working out of the 19th-century Romantic tradition in which nature's primordial energy is revealed throught the drama of human emotions, Burchfield makes the commonplace extraordinary, the everyday miraculous.
Author : Esther Adler
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2013-08-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 087070852X
The Museum of Modern Art is known for its prescient focus on the avant-garde art of Europe, but in the first half of the twentieth century it was also acquiring work by Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and other, less well-known American artists whose work sometimes fits awkwardly under the avant garde umbrella. American Modern presents a fresh look at MoMA’s holdings of American art from that period. The still lifes, portraits, and urban, rural, and industrial landscapes vary in style, approach, and medium: melancholy images by Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth bump against the eccentric landscapes of Charles Burchfield and the Jazz Age sculpture of Elie Nadelman. Yet a distinct sensibility emerges, revealing a side of the Museum that may surprise a good part of its audience and throwing light on the cultural preoccupations of the rapidly changing American society of the day.
Author : Charles Burchfield
Publisher : Suny Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :
pages) by J. Benjamin Townsend. What a great event--the edited and annotated journals of Burchfield Brilliantly edited (from 72 bound notebooks comprising some 10,000 (1893-1967), the preeminent American watercolorist and painter of nature, complemented by 41 color plates and 131 bandw illustrations. And what a journal--Burchfield's intelligence, sensitivity, spirituality revealed in notes on activities, sketching trips, nature observations, personal encounters, literature and music, artistic growth, and religious conflict. Beginning with the summer before his third year of high school and continuing up to nine months before his death, the journals constitute a huge 20th-century spiritual autobiography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Nancy Weekly
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780791417836
Dissatisfied with painting realistically, Burchfield returned in the 1940s to his fanciful style of 1917 and expanded old ideas, even the actual paintings themselves, into larger and more meaningful interpretations of nature. A lifetime of spiritual soul-searching and self-doubt, the recurrence of serious illnesses, and the steady persuasiveness of his wife, Bertha, led to Burchfield's eventual adoption of the Lutheran faith in 1943-44. Autobiographical, romantic landscapes of this period contain his symbols for man's place in the universal scheme.
Author : Robert Cozzolino
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2016-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691172692
-World War I and American Art provides an unprecedented look at the ways in which American artists reacted to the war. Artists took a leading role in chronicling the war, crafting images that influenced public opinion, supported mobilization efforts, and helped to shape how the war's appalling human toll was memorialized. The book brings together paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and ephemera, spanning the diverse visual culture of the period to tell the story of a crucial turning point in the history of American art---
Author : John Ireland Howe Baur
Publisher : Cornwall Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Examines Burchfield's art as the culmination of a vein of pantheism that stretches from Emerson, Thoreau, and the Hudson River school to Burchfield's last great watercolors of the 1960s. The author draws on Burchfield's journal and letters to trace the artist's development (American Art Series) Illustrated.
